Схема розділу
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Purpose: to study medieval philosophy as a synthesis of two traditions: Christian ideology and ancient philosophy. Theocentrism of medieval philosophy: man and nature as God's creation Scholasticism as a rational justification of theology. The polemic between realism and nominalism. To consider the teachings of Thomas Aquinas - the systematizer of medieval scholasticism. To study the main ideas of Renaissance philosophy, its specifics and features. To pay special attention to the idea of humanism, its content and place in European culture. To find out the features of pantheistic natural philosophy and its role in the formation of European culture. To consider the teachings of Nicholas of Cusa about man, and N. Copernicus and J. Bruno about the infinite Universe. To get acquainted with the socio-political concepts of the Renaissance.